To set up Time Machine in macOS: Open the Apple menu and click System Preferences. Because storage space has become relatively cheap, we recommend you use a drive that’s at least two times the size of the drive you’re backing up. This Apple Support page provides some instructions on using Disk Utility. To set up and start using Time Machine, you’ll need a suitable external backup drive (USB, FireWire, or Thunderbolt). Then you could configure Time Machine to backup to this recently erased USB external hard drive. You could use Disk Utility to erase it which would, of course, delete all of existing backup data stored on this drive. Then, you are going to want to click the Time Machine on. First, make sure your external drive is hooked into your Mac and that your Mac recognizes it. Here you will be able to set up your Time Machine and your external drive.
To the best of my knowledge, the only way to remove the password is to erase your USB external hard drive. If you do find it in your menubar, click on it, then click on Open Time Machine Preferences. The password that you set on your USB external hard drive is used to encrypt the data that gets stored on that drive. Thus, I wrote some instructions and I’m sure other people have as well.
For whatever reason, they don’t happen to provide instructions on how to replace an USB external hard drive when it fails. Read more about backup, external, hard drive, mac, replace, Time Machine.Īpple provides simple instructions that cover how to initially setup Time Machine and restore files from it. It’ll likely take many hours to finish since it needs to backup everything on your Mac. Within a couple of minutes, Time Machine will initiate a backup to this new hard drive.Click the red dot to close System Preferences.For simple file transfers, just use a USB flash drive, formatted as FAT32.